A CARVED CLAIRE-DE-LUNE JARDINIERE

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A CARVED CLAIRE-DE-LUNE JARDINIERE
XUANHE FOUR-CHARACTER MARK, KANGXI

Finely carved on the globular body with a pair of sinuous four-clawed dragons in pursuit of a flaming pearl amid fire and cloud scrolls and above crashing waves and rockwork, covered in an even, pale lavender- blue glaze, the lipped rim painted with a saw-tooth border in underglaze-blue, the interior white, the base with the mark, Xuan he nian zhi (firing crack to ring foot)
8 1/4 in. (21.4 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

The Works of Art Collection of the British Rail Pension Fund, sold in Hong Kong, 16 May 1989, lot 50.

Lot Essay

Cf. the vase of the same colour carved with flower medallions and with a similar mark in the Percival David Foundation, included in the Exhibition of Imperial Taste: Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation, Los Angeles County Museum, Catalogue, no. 40.

(US$7,000-9,000)

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